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It’s a fact. Every day 14 Americans die in trucker linked crashes – many more get injured. Every single day.

It is also a proven fact that the typical American trucker won’t live enough time to gather social security.

The profile of the greatest number of sleep apnea victims, poor eating habits, overweight, poor health habits, fit the profile of your typical trucker who actually finds truck stop buffets a contest, and takes less time for sleep compared to those who aren’t paid by the mile. Nationwide medical studies report that seven of 10 18 wheel drivers classify as obese. One Midwest transportation business just recently reported their situation to be even worse than that. Their CEO stated he believes almost fifty percent of his truck drivers were classified to be dangerously obese.

An advertisement from the Sleep4Safety.com group in the current issue of national transportation magazine Driver Health(circulation 100,000) proclaims that death is not a form of retirement and asks its truck driving readers, did you know the average trucker will die before their 61st birthday? Sobering and definitely food for thought as you glance in your rear view mirror at the eighteen wheeler coming speedily behind you.

Sleep4Safety CEO Sigurjon Kristjannson suggests an eighteen wheel truck operated by a sleep-deprived driver could be as deadly as a drunk driver heading the wrong way along the interstate. Consider, he suggests, that three of every 10 truckers you observe on the road today probably possess the situational awareness equivalent to having .06 to .08 alcohol in their blood system. They’re, in a very real sense, he says, driving intoxicated – not an drinking fueled intoxication, but one produced by chronic lack of sleep. Think about, exactly how far an 18 wheeler, traveling 60 mph, travels in the brief moment the operator nods off and what can happen during that time.

Dr Jeffrey Durmer, Atlanta, identified in the publication as “Dr Sleep” and also the Chief Medical Officer at Sleep4Safety urges sleep testing to identify those drivers with sleep apnea problems and then provide on-the-job treatment. Driver Health publisher Andy Shefsky writes that his goal is to raise the typical truck driver life span age from just shy of 61 to 77, to the average American life expectancy.

Accomplishing that will require 18 wheel pilots to eat right, exercise, and check to make sure, as easy as it sounds, they’re getting enough good sleep. And, otherwise, to simply accept non-intrusive treatment on the job.

The cost of neglecting to do so, goes far beyond the equipment repair and replacement to the staggering medical bills, soaring insurance costs for companies to the 14 people who, each day, lose their life in a trucking accident one of each three being the trucker himself. Get enough rest and hope that trucker coming up in back of you also did. Pithy Quotes: “You never know when checkout time is.” Val Dempsey, CEI, Atlanta

Bud Carter has published a motivational quotes book entitled Chairman Carter’s Collection of Pithy Quotes (Quotes intended to boost your bottom line, or, at the least, your attitude). He is in addition the Senior Chariman of Vistage Atlanta.

Originally published here.

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